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10 Teams Emerge from UNB TME

  • Jul 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The University of New Brunswick’s Master of Technology Management & Entrepreneurship program held its final pitching session Thursday night, allowing 10 teams comprising 13 students to present their companies to peers, mentors and local business

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Jobs: Dash Hudson, BioNB

  • Jul 10, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column this week features postings from Dash Hudson, which is seeking a Sales Development Intern, and BioNB, which has an opening for a Marketing and Communications Officer.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson has created a “visual

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Armed with Data, IWT Plans to Scale

  • Jul 07, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Island Water Technologies has completed the first installations of its Regen water-treatment facility, and those two projects are providing the company with the one thing it needs to win other contracts — data.

Based in Montague, P.E.I., IWT now

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PEI’s Startup Zone Adds 3 Teams

  • Jul 07, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Zone, the hub for new businesses in downtown Charlottetown, has announced that three new companies have joined its business incubation residency program.

The latest companies to be accepted into the program are Shoplaw, Local Legends

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Securicy Ramping Up Paid Beta Tests

  • Jul 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

When veteran tech entrepreneur Darren Gallop learned how hard it was to meet his partners’ demands for cybersecurity, it led to the creation of a new company that helps with such tasks.

Gallop is best known as the founder and CEO of Sydney-based

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Evoqua Buys Fredericton’s ADI

  • Jul 06, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Pittsburgh-based Evoqua Water Technologies has bought ADI Systems, Lange Containment and Geomembrane Technologies from ADI Group Inc. of Fredericton for an undisclosed price.

In a statement released Wednesday, Evoqua said the three businesses are

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Moving to Cloud, Remsoft Adds Staff

  • Jul 05, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Remsoft, the Fredericton company that produces predictive analytics software for the forest industry, is moving to the cloud, leading to one of the strongest staffing increases in its 25-year history.

The company, which now employs 33 people, plans

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New Look in Sydney Startup Hub

  • Jul 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The startup ecosystem in Cape Breton is changing, with the creation of a new program called the Momentum Initiative and the end of the ground-breaking UIT program at Cape Breton University.

The changes are taking place at a seminal moment in the

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Jobs: Propel Seeks a New CEO

  • Jul 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Propel ICT, the regional tech accelerator, is searching for a new CEO, which is the highlight of this edition of our Job of the Week column.

Propel is a unique phenomenon – the only tech accelerator in the country that holds cohorts in four

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Jones Highlights IIoT as Opportunity

  • Jun 30, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is still a relatively new field, one ripe for development in a region such as Atlantic Canada, where there are educational and business systems primed to boost entrepreneurship.

This is the belief of Richard

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Side Door Targets Home Concerts

  • Jun 29, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Kicking off an interview about her new music-technology business, Laura Simpson excused herself to text a friend in Los Angeles about an upcoming Janet Jackson concert in someone’s L.A. home.

This is the world that Simpson lives in now — organizing

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GoBumpFree Raises $1M, Launches

  • Jun 29, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Having raised almost $1 million in equity funding, GoBumpFree is now launching its new travel platform for airline employees and retirees.

The Halifax company said in a statement this week it is launching the latest version of its travel platform

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